usually, im skate it till u break it. but this thing refuses. ive been skating it seince i got it last christmas and jees just look at those pressure cracks! they call up and down the board. i wasnt even able to board slide when i got this board and i learned how somehow without breaking it. im by no means great but i certainly attempted enough times to get where i am now that i just assumed the pressure cracks would become regular cracks.
this one is either and 8 or an 8.25, i do not remember. im going to take the trucks off and put it on a 7.75 my mom got me. i already feel like this thing is too dinky, sadly the board she got me just aint it. i want a 9, maybe even a 10. the more surface area the better for me personally, as its more forgiving for landing tricks and its easier to be precise when flicking tricks.
figure skating is a great sport because it has rewired my brain to react to maurice ravel's bolero, a beautiful piece of classical music, the same way i would react to a rickroll
This is my dream trick. Not a kickflip, I have that down, but the STEEZEflip! What defines a steezeflip? Its a regular kickflip with an insanely high pop and an equally high catch. This is achieved of course by having a very high ollie, but also having the foot control to make the scrape really long. This clip illustrates it perfectly as there is a long scrape from bolts to the edge of the board with the flip resulting from the flick off the side of the board. The rotation coming from the flick and not the drag itself allows the board to spin a lot faster than usual, which is how skaters are able to catch kickflips at what seems to be the peak of their aerial arc.
This is a (semi)recent video of me kickflipping. I actually haven't progressed very much since this even tho kickflips are a somewhat recent trick for me. The reason for this is my skateboard has such waterlogged grip-tape I literally rubbed my face on it full force on stream and nothing even happened. Felt like a towel I'm so serious. Having no grip did teach me to flick the board and not just scrape, which was good, but if I had actual grip-tape to scrape on maybe I could get them higher. I'm planning on buying a new board soon as the rainy season is coming to an end. [See next post where I talk about my board preference]